Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise here today to speak to Bill S-3, which passed third reading in the other place on May 4, 2010. The Bloc Québécois supports the bill because we believe that it is important to implement the tax conventions negotiated with Colombia, Greece

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  Madam Speaker, I listened very carefully to the hon. member's comments. He referred to Colombia, Greece and Turkey and his resistance with Colombia because of human rights. One-third of island of Cyprus is illegally occupied by Turkish forces. There are 1,600 Greek and Turkish

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill S-3, An Act to implement conventions and protocols concluded between Canada and Colombia, Greece and Turkey for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. The first thing I

Procedure and House Affairs committee   like Greece. Credit default swap is a form of insurance, but it's not just like any insurance. You can actually go and buy.... It's like buying insurance on your neighbour's house and worrying--or maybe hoping--that your neighbour's house is going to buy down. That's the nature

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010   would not have that information at his fingertips. Another question I want to ask him is: To how many people does this apply? Surely the government has some idea of how many citizens this particular new initiative, the new Bill S-3, would apply to in terms of citizens from Greece

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Elmwood—Transcona addressed the main issue to which I had already spoken, which is what the objective is of this bill. What do we want to do when we engage in tax treaties with countries like Turkey, Greece and Colombia? We need to have

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010   are now moving ahead with Greece, Turkey and Colombia. I understand that we are already in negotiations with other countries like Cuba. The idea is that those countries and their legitimate authorities help our own investors to secure a proper investment environment and at the same

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  , for Colombians, for Canadians operating in Greece, Turkey and Colombia. They need to be assured that when they send employees of a Canadian company to those countries, they are not going to be overtaxed or double taxed. It is a part of our pattern of expanding trade. We continue with our

Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 2010  moved that Bill S-3, An Act to implement conventions and protocols concluded between Canada and Colombia, Greece and Turkey for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, be read the second time and referred

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, in the middle of the 1990s, Jean Chrétien inherited a $42 billion Conservative deficit and an overall government debt burden equal to that of Greece. He and Paul Martin massively paid down debt, delaying tax cuts until the books were balanced. Why, in the middle

Business of Supply   with China, no less, to help with the regulation of securities trading. As a result of the difficulties in Greece that we discussed last week and the computer errors last Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange, financial markets were in turmoil. But Canada did quite well. The Minister

National Defence committee   the security of liberal democracies is fracturing. I've just been thinking these days, given what's going on in Greece this morning and this week and what's going to go on for the next few weeks, that the European Union was a grand idea, and I use it in the past tense. Part of the grand

Foreign Affairs committee   much. We could grow ourselves out of this situation, but again that's dependent on our trading partners recovering at the same time. Last week Greece received one of the biggest bailouts in history from the European Union and the IMF, and in eastern Europe and western Europe many

Fairness for Military Families (Employment Insurance) Act   enough to suggest that we are at the end of a difficult time. We do not know when the end of a difficult time will be. It may be that for people who do well enough the recession may be over. Now we are looking to see what happens in Greece and Spain and other economies. For many

Industry committee  I truly don't understand what's going on in Greece. You can demonstrate all you want in the streets, but two and two still add up to four, and if you don't have money to pay for something, it's just not there. I do think Canada is better positioned at present than most OECD